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The Sea of Cortez is Bursting with Life

  • Post author By Nautilus Crew
  • Post date 2018-06-17
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By Nautilus Crew on June 17th, 2018 in Crew, Sea of Cortez

We had three beautiful dives with mating octopus, seahorse, nudibranchs, scorpion fish, morays and lovely schools of grunts, snapper and surgeonfish also. Not to mention a couple of playful sea lions to brighten our day!

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  • Tags dolphins, gray whale, mobulas, nudibranches, pelicans, sea lions, Sea of Cortez

Some of California’s Hottest Diving – Day 5

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-05-16
By Nautilus Staff on May 16th, 2008 in Archive

Many different nudibranchs were seen and photographed and Alicia found a very small blue arthropod which she had never seen before. This would not mean much if I said it but Alicia studies nudibranchs in the Eastern Pacific and is Mexico’s leading expert on nudibranchs! She spends lots of time looking at small stuff in the ocean and when she gets excited, I get excited!

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  • Tags anemone, blue arthropod, california, Channel Islands, gull island, kelp, kelp fish, nudibranches, reef, Rockfish, san miguel island, Santa cruz, santa rosa, sea lions, the pinnacles, USA, wyckoff ledge

Diving on an Oil Platform Off Los Angeles

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-05-15
By Nautilus Staff on May 15th, 2008 in Archive

Eureka Platform sits in around 500 feet of water which makes it an oasis in the ocean desert. After getting permission from the platform thanks to the help of Captain Mike (is it a rule that all Captains get renamed Mike?) of the supply vessel Isabel El, we staged two dives here and the general consensus was that it was well worth the skiff ride. There is a very definite vertical line as you descend where the mussels leave off and the anemones take over at about 30 feet. There is also a marked difference between the life on each of the legs which presumably is due to differing light conditions and water movement. Some legs were covered in strawberry anemones, others in the white metridium. In amongst the anemones were barnacles and small amounts of kelp, sponges and corals.

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  • Tags catalina, corals, crab feast, eureka platform, kelp, Los angeles, moon deck, nudibranches, oil platform, palm kelp, ship rock, sponges, strawberry anemones, white metridium

Day 2 at San Clemente Island

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-05-13
By Nautilus Staff on May 13th, 2008 in Archive

Another great day of diving in the southern Channel Islands. Here is what I recorded in my personal dive log: Aquarium Reef – temp 56, vis 30 feet, breezy, 3 foot swell – lots of purple corralline algae and small amounts of purple hard coral. (Dive with Ian) Aquarium Reef – temp 56, vis 20 feet, breezy, 3 foot swell, Garibaldi NW Harbor – temp 55, vis 20 feet, light breeze, 1-2 foot swell – kelp forest, sea lions, nudibranchs. NW Harbor (twilight) – temp 55 vis 20 feet, calm, calm – blue shark, much more skittish than those we are used to in the Revillagigedo.

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  • Tags aquarium reef, blue shark, california, Channel Islands, corralline algae, Garibaldi, kelp forest, nudibranches, purple coral, sea lions

Diving in Browning Pass, British Columbia

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-06-04
By Nautilus Staff on June 4th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Dive Day 1 of the first trip of our British Columbia scuba diving season and we have already done 2 dives in Browning Pass! Browning Wall makes for quite the warmup dive! We boarded our guests in Vancouver yesterday evening and sailed straight up the Inside Passage, past Port Hardy, arriving at Hussar Point, Browning Pass in the late afternoon.

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  • Tags Browning Pass, Hussar point, nudibranches, red coral, red wall
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